diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd8764e..6f87598 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 # Python JSONPath Change Log
 
-## Unreleased
+## Version 2.2.0 (unreleased)
 
 **Fixes**
 
-- Fixed lexing of quoted name selectors ending in an escaped backslash, like `$['a\\']['b']`. The lexer's look-behind for the closing quote treated a quote following an escaped backslash (`\\`) as an escaped quote (`\'`), so these selectors failed to tokenize. This also broke the RFC 9535 normalized path round-trip: normalized paths produced for object keys containing backslashes could not be parsed back.
+- Fixed lexing of quoted name selectors ending in an escaped backslash, like `$['a\\']['b']`. The lexer's look-behind for the closing quote treated a quote following an escaped backslash (`\\`) as an escaped quote (`\'`), so these selectors failed to tokenize. This also broke the RFC 9535 normalized path round-trip: normalized paths produced for object keys containing backslashes could not be parsed back. See [#132](https://github.com/jg-rp/python-jsonpath/pull/132).
+
+**Features**
+
+- Added `patch.patched(ops, data)` and `JSONPatch.patched(data)`. `patched()` is a non-mutating form of JSONPatch application. They always perform a deep copy of `data` and return the patched copy. See [#131](https://github.com/jg-rp/python-jsonpath/issues/131).
 
 ## Version 2.1.0
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35e8c01..184e40e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -163,6 +163,24 @@ with contextlib.suppress(JSONPatchError):
 assert data == {"some": {"other": "thing"}}
 ```
 
+`patch.patched(ops, data)` and `JSONPatch.patched(data)` apply patch operations to a deep copy of `data`.
+
+```python
+from jsonpath import patch
+
+patch_operations = [
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo", "value": {"foo": {}}},
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo", "value": {"bar": []}},
+    {"op": "copy", "from": "/some/other", "path": "/some/foo/else"},
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo/bar/-", "value": 1},
+]
+
+data = {"some": {"other": "thing"}}
+patched_data = patch.patched(patch_operations, data)
+
+assert data != patched_data
+```
+
 ## License
 
 `python-jsonpath` is distributed under the terms of the [MIT](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html) license.
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index 6f4298d..c8786e6 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -364,6 +364,28 @@ except JSONPatchError:
 assert data == data_
 ```
 
+## `patch.patched(patch, data)`
+
+**_New in version 2.2.0_**
+
+`patch.patched(ops, data)` and `JSONPatch.patched(data)` never mutate `data`. They apply patch operations to a deep copy of `data` and return the patched copy.
+
+```python
+from jsonpath import patch
+
+patch_operations = [
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo", "value": {"foo": {}}},
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo", "value": {"bar": []}},
+    {"op": "copy", "from": "/some/other", "path": "/some/foo/else"},
+    {"op": "add", "path": "/some/foo/bar/-", "value": 1},
+]
+
+data = {"some": {"other": "thing"}}
+patched_data = patch.patched(patch_operations, data)
+
+assert data != patched_data
+```
+
 ## What's Next?
 
 Read about the [Query Iterators](query.md) API or [user-defined filter functions](advanced.md#function-extensions). Also see how to make extra data available to filters with [Extra Filter Context](advanced.md#filter-variables).
diff --git a/jsonpath/__about__.py b/jsonpath/__about__.py
index d570b96..f1a6891 100644
--- a/jsonpath/__about__.py
+++ b/jsonpath/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023-present James Prior <jamesgr.prior@gmail.com>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-__version__ = "2.1.0"
+__version__ = "2.2.0"
diff --git a/jsonpath/patch.py b/jsonpath/patch.py
index f7c5d7b..c4a800b 100644
--- a/jsonpath/patch.py
+++ b/jsonpath/patch.py
@@ -705,6 +705,25 @@ def atomic(
 
         return data
 
+    def patched(
+        self,
+        data: Union[List[Any], Dict[str, Any]],
+    ) -> object:
+        """Apply this patch to a deep copy of _data_.
+
+        Arguments:
+            data: JSON-like data.
+
+        Returns:
+            A patched copy of _data_.
+
+        Raises:
+            JSONPatchError: When a patch operation fails.
+            JSONPatchTestFailure: When a _test_ operation does not pass.
+                `JSONPatchTestFailure` is a subclass of `JSONPatchError`.
+        """
+        return self.apply(copy.deepcopy(data))
+
     def asdicts(self) -> List[Dict[str, object]]:
         """Return a list of this patch's operations as dictionaries."""
         return [op.asdict() for op in self.ops]
@@ -751,7 +770,7 @@ def apply(
 
 
 def atomic(
-    patch: Union[str, IOBase, Iterable[Mapping[str, object]], None],
+    patch: Union[str, Iterable[Mapping[str, object]], None],
     data: Union[List[Any], Dict[str, Any]],
     *,
     unicode_escape: bool = True,
@@ -782,3 +801,35 @@ def atomic(
         unicode_escape=unicode_escape,
         uri_decode=uri_decode,
     ).atomic(data)
+
+
+def patched(
+    patch: Union[str, Iterable[Mapping[str, object]], None],
+    data: Union[List[Any], Dict[str, Any]],
+    *,
+    unicode_escape: bool = True,
+    uri_decode: bool = False,
+) -> object:
+    """Apply patch operations from _patch_ to a deep copy of _data_.
+
+    Arguments:
+        patch: A JSON Patch formatted document or equivalent Python objects.
+        data: JSON-like data.
+        unicode_escape: If `True`, UTF-16 escape sequences will be decoded
+            before parsing JSON pointers.
+        uri_decode: If `True`, JSON pointers will be unescaped using _urllib_
+            before being parsed.
+
+    Returns:
+        A patched copy of _data_.
+
+    Raises:
+        JSONPatchError: When a patch operation fails.
+        JSONPatchTestFailure: When a _test_ operation does not pass.
+            `JSONPatchTestFailure` is a subclass of `JSONPatchError`.
+    """
+    return JSONPatch(
+        patch,
+        unicode_escape=unicode_escape,
+        uri_decode=uri_decode,
+    ).patched(data)
diff --git a/tests/test_json_patch.py b/tests/test_json_patch.py
index 7e3660d..bba7489 100644
--- a/tests/test_json_patch.py
+++ b/tests/test_json_patch.py
@@ -352,3 +352,18 @@ def test_atomic_patch_array_fail() -> None:
         patch.atomic(data)
 
     assert data == data_
+
+
+def test_patched_does_not_mutate_data() -> None:
+    """Test that _patched_ modifies a deep copy of data."""
+    patch_doc: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [
+        {"op": "replace", "path": "/a/b/c", "value": 42},
+        {"op": "add", "path": "/a/b/d", "value": 2},
+    ]
+
+    data: Dict[str, Any] = {"a": {"b": {"c": 1}}}
+    patch = JSONPatch(patch_doc)
+    patched_data = patch.patched(data)
+
+    assert data == {"a": {"b": {"c": 1}}}
+    assert patched_data == {"a": {"b": {"c": 42, "d": 2}}}